Strangelove wrote: I'm going to go with $6.5M X 8 with an NTC for the first 6 years.
He won't qualify for a NTC until he's played 7 seasons or is 27 IIRC?!?
So it can be added once he qualifies for one but not in the first few years.
oopsie okay then I'm going to go with $6.5M X 8 with an NTC for the last 4 years.
This may seem outlandish, but if I'm Bo's agent, and I'm negotiating his second contract, then I'm looking squarely at the contract history of Jonathan Toews.
Toews went back to college for a year after being drafted.
Bo went back to junior for a year.
The first thing after this to remember that Toews stepped onto a team that had already bottomed out and were rebuilding around a very strong, young, group featuring himself, Kane, Keith, Seabrook, and Ladd. Guys like Hjalmerson, Byfuglien, and Barker (who would bust), already in the mix.
Horvat joined a franchise in denial who were well into their decline, and not ready to admit it was time to rebuild. Bo was the first bright spot in the Canucks restocking of the prospect cupboards.
Toews put up 54 points in 64 games during his rookie season playing in the top 6 with guys like Kane, Sharp, or Lang.
Bo put up 25 points in 68 games while playing on the 4th line with guys like Derek Dorsett and Ronald Kenins.
In the playoffs Toews, and the rest of the Blackhawks, watched from home.
Horvat tied for 1st on the team in scoring with 4 points in 6 games and was the best looking Canuck on the ice.
Toews: 80 games and 69 points on the top line with Havlat, Kane, Versteeg, and Sharp. Good for 3rd on the team.
Horvat: 82 games and 40 points in the bottom 6 in primarily defensive zone starts. Good for 3rd on the team.
Toews rips it up in the playoffs with a 3rd round exit. But he proves he's a playoff leader like few others.
Horvat watches from home with the rest of the Canucks.
Toews: 76 games and 68 points on the top line of an insanely good team. Good for 3rd on the team.
Horvat: 81 games and 52 points on the 2nd/3rd line playing with middling forwards. Good for 1st on the team.
Toews then tears it up and wins a Cup and the Conn Smythe.
Bo watched from home again.
Toews would go on to win 2 more cups, a Selke, and a Messier award. While his personal performance has remained relatively steady, albeit with a slight drop in production, his team is beginning to show signs of slowing down as they are forced to shed salary to afford their core players. He's still a top player though.
After his ELC Toews would sign a 5 year deal worth $6.3M. He didn't lock up for the maximum term, he took himself to free agency, or within a year of it I think. During that time his performance, and the team's success, rewarded him with a monster contract.
Now as an agent, I'm saying both of these guys play a 200 foot game, they both elevate their play as the season progresses, and they both find an extra gear in the playoffs (limited sample size for Horvat though I realize). And while I would not be trying to sell the Canucks on the line that Bo is as good as Toews, he's one tier below him IMO, I would be pointing out that Horvat has had far poorer linemate support, and his coach has been a questionable decision maker, especially when compared to Joel Q. But with Benning having nicely begun to fill up the prospect pool with some potential talent, and the team finally admitting that it's time to rebuild, I would be negotiating for a shorter term. No matter what the team wants, I would be saying $5M for 3-4 years, and I would even take a bit less to get the 4 years as that would give Bo 7 years in the league and UFA status. As an agent it would be foolish to do anything less for a client. Unless the Canucks are coming in with 8 years and $7.5M, you don't sign long term with this franchise.
Yep if I'm Horvat I don't sign longer than 4 or 5 years. Make some good money and also give yourself an out if this garbage fire continues long term.
Just buggin ya Dude, havin fun.
3 years and $15M seems about right as a bridge deal.
I still see him signing a four year deal. Four years for 20 million takes him to UFA.
Meds wrote: This may seem outlandish, but if I'm Bo's agent, and I'm negotiating his second contract, then I'm looking squarely at the contract history of Jonathan Toews.
Very interesting post, and it got me thinking.
On the plus side for contract negotiation, Bo is still about 20 points and a Cup and Conn Smythe back of Toews at the end of his ELC.
Toews got paid after his 3rd Cup and 8th year. I predict that Toews' $10.5 million contract is the end of the Hawks dynasty. Since signing that deal, they have back-to-back first round exits, and a sweep this year.
Similarly, Kopitar's $9.5 mil contract is the end of the Kings dynasty. In the Kings case, they'd already missed the playoffs 2/3 years before the extension was signed.
The Penguins had a helluva time after signing Crosby and Malkin. They won their first cup with Malkin on his ELC. After they got their raises, it took them 7 years before they made it to the SCF again, and I'd argue that's only because they finally had key contributors on ELCs again (Murray, Sheary, Guentzel).
The final example of the mega-cap hit is Washington, and we all know how that's going.
So if Horvat is going to follow the Toews contract progression, its going to be key to delay his final UFA big-bucks contract as long as possible. If he'll only go 4 years to take him to UFA status, that could very well be the Canucks' window. I'd be willing to give up quite a bit on cap-hit to take him through the first couple of UFA years.
Good post. Funny you should bring it up because it's something i've given some thought to once mcdavid was extended. Not specifically regarding the ripple effect on other contracts in the league but moreso I was wondering, despite the penguins success the last two years, if we're entering an era where having generational talent(s) is less helpful and more of a handcuff for a team. At least when those megabuck deals kick in. In other words, will teams be better served filling the roster with a greater number of "2nd tier" star players eating up less cap versus one or two superstars taking up a disproportionate percentage of available cap space. It seems like u definitely have to strike early with those guys or have a solid GM who can juggle bodies/contracts as well as getting those quality players contributing on their elc's, like you mentioned.
Yeah, I think McDavid's contract will either prove or disprove the player, as he's a far greater player than Kopitar/Kane/Toews.
But as great as he is, he has little bargaining power and could likely have been had for less through to his UFA years. If he'd taken, say, a 4x$8 mil contract (saving $4.5mil on the cap for the next 4 years), would he have gotten that much more than $12.5mil as a UFA? Maybe he'd have gotten $14-15mil, but they're trading $4.5mil of cap space for the next 4 years in order to save $1.5-2.5 mil from years 5-8 (and also not risk losing McD as a UFA, obviously).
Its not dissimilar from Tambellini locking up his 1st overalls to 6x$6 mil. He paid them as UFA 1st-liners, gained a couple years of their UFA status, but they never lived up to them and they are now causing cap difficulty.
ESQ wrote: But as great as he is, he has little bargaining power and could likely have been had for less through to his UFA years. If he'd taken, say, a 4x$8 mil contract (saving $4.5mil on the cap for the next 4 years), would he have gotten that much more than $12.5mil as a UFA? Maybe he'd have gotten $14-15mil, but they're trading $4.5mil of cap space for the next 4 years in order to save $1.5-2.5 mil from years 5-8 (and also not risk losing McD as a UFA, obviously).
McDavid camp played this perfectly. Leak the $13.5M per number, come in under it, have Oilers fans gushing about "taking a hometeam discount".
Oh for sure, I agree 100%, its a great deal for McDavid.
I think its a not-so-great deal for the Oilers. Its hard to flat-out call it a bad deal when they get the best player in the world out of it, but I agree with you, McDavid didn't do the Oilers any favours.
Yeah, it will be interesting to see what Draisaitl gets. My guess is the Sekera, Lucic, and RNH deals ($17.5M combined) will start to feel pretty heavy as soon as McDavid's contract kicks in.
Looking at 2018-19, they have about $22M in cap space (prior to Draisaitl's deal), and only 12 players signed. If Nurse and Strome have decent seasons, cap hell comes quickly in Edmonton.
But yeah, not the worst problem to have, but they're going to need to be careful to manage that cap.


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The DuckTales special Woo-oo! will be released on DVD in the UK for the first time on Monday 9th July. David Tennant stars as Scrooge McDuck in the hour long adventure which reintroduced the adventuring billionaire and his extended family to a whole new generation of fans.
Donald Duck reluctantly takes his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie to the home of their reclusive great-uncle Scrooge McDuck. Enthralled by their once legendary great-uncle and the wonder of McDuck Manor, the triplets and their newfound fierce friend Webby learn of long-kept family secrets and unleash totems from Scrooge's epic past, sending the family on an adventure of a lifetime to the Lost City of Atlantis.
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Marie Scinto, Transformational Political Leader, Brought Out The Best In People
October 20, 2014 LennieGrimaldi Analysis and Comment, Best of Bridgeport, City Politics, News and Events2 Comments
Marie Scinto.
Marie Iassogna Scinto was a special politician because she was a special person. Elected Republican town chair in 1978, she became the first woman in Bridgeport history to lead a city political party. She also was active in city politics during the period from 1971 to 1991 in which Republican mayors occupied City Hall for 10 of those years. She was both genial and cunning in her approach to politics, but also always very approachable, representing an era in which you could fight an adversary one day and sit down for a cocktail the next day. She passed away last week, leaving a political legacy that championed the two-party system. See her obituary here.
Scinto was a charter member of the Republican Action League that consisted of a number of young political guns including James Stapleton and Nick Panuzio that transformed the Republican Party through a voter registration drive in 1969-70 that dispatched old-time political hand Edward Sandula. The result helped to elect Panuzio mayor in 1971.
OIB correspondent Jim Callahan who covered her for years as a leading political writer in the city shares observations.
A young reporter was babbling about issues in the mayoral campaign.
The political pro was turned away at a wall with a magic marker going over a list of 60,000 registered voters posted in a campaign headquarters.
She finally heard enough chirping.
"Look it, Jim," said Marie I. Scinto, turning around and pointing a yellow marker at her annoyance. "I don't care about issues. I only care about 50 percent plus one."
Marie was the ultimate nuts-and-bolts pol.
Other people run for office. They have to create sizzle with the voters to vote for them.
Marie was the organizer. She was the person who helped that person get their message out to the people who are going to vote for them.
The crack about not caring about issues was not quite true. She cared about candidates, Republican candidates. But it was up to a candidate to articulate the issues. It was her job to help organize the people to help find the voters who agreed with the candidate.
And get those voters out to vote, the "50 percent plus one."
Marie Scinto was good at that. She didn't care about polls or trends or buying TV or radio ads. She wanted a campaign headquarters and telephones and literature for volunteers to hand out.
Marie was a leader of the Republican faithful, the rank-and-file Republican committee members. These are the people who worked for their political party because they believed in it. She was good at making those people feel wanted, and to enjoy a task that was frequently thankless.
There are going to be disagreements, personality conflicts, among any group of people. She was good at working through that. Hearing them out.
"All my children," she would sigh, taking her wisecrack from the popular afternoon soap opera of the time. Marie came out of the Republican Action League movement of the late 1960s when a younger generation of Republicans challenged the status quo of their own party and the city.
Other guys came up with the ideas–this was a revolt led by radical red caps of the Republican fringe–the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Lions Club, Bar Association. Attorney Jim Stapleton and fellow ringleaders were the face of a largely middle-class revolt against the Democratic Party status quo in Bridgeport at the time. It was liberal enough to reach out to the entire city, trying to sweep up whatever votes they could find in the poorer precincts–driving Democratic operatives nuts by seeking (and sometimes finding) voters who were "supposed" to be birthright Democratic.
Marie Scinto's public political career came out of that. She emerged as one of the volunteers good at organizing a headquarters. She was made vice chairman of the party.
She thought that was the limit. But many of the people who recognized her ability to run a headquarters also felt she was the best person to keep the party in general together.
Republicans in Bridgeport were always going to be the minority against the Democrats. They were always going to start behind. At first it was two to one. Republicans won. Then it was three to one. Republicans won.
They had issues, generally handed to them by Democratic ineptitude. That was the start. To overcome the numbers, precise organization was needed.
Marie Scinto was better at leading a voter turnout that favored her side better than most Democrats of the era. The Dems could afford to mess up a page or two of voters on Election Day. They could afford a few missed rides for people who wanted to vote. Republicans could not. Scinto's group didn't leave many voters that favored their side behind.
That she did that with good humor and empathy was unusual.
Gossip and criticism among people involved in politics is pandemic. The usual criticism about Marie Scinto was that she was too nice. She should have been tougher. Most people in politics are. Some are crazy. She was not.
She got the job done despite being nice.
She certainly did not win all elections she ran. She knew going in the odds were against Bridgeport Republicans.
She helped make the best out of what she had available, and she helped bring out the best in the people who were working with her.
That doesn't always happen in politics.
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Steven Auerbach says:
She was a very sweet, sincere individual. My condolences to the entire family.
just the facts says:
Great person–sincerest sympathies to her family. Unfortunately, Republicans of the 1970s wouldn't recognize today's Republicans as being the same party.

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Rudolf Kroboth (* 5. September 1887 in Hoflenz; † 30. Juli 1964 in Eisenstadt) war ein österreichischer Landwirt und Politiker (CS). Er war Abgeordneter zum Nationalrat.

Leben
Kroboth war als Landwirt in Donnerskirchen tätig und war Geschäftsführer der Raiffeisenkasse. Im wurde 1931 der Berufstitel Ökonomierat verliehen.

Kroboth war verheiratet.

Politik
Kroboth übernahm am 4. Februar 1923 die Funktion des Obmanns des Christlichen burgenländischen Bauernbundes und war Mitglied des Landesparteivorstandes sowie zwischen dem 29. Mai 1928 und dem 28. Juni 1932 1. Obmann-Stellvertreter der Christlichsozialen Partei. Kroboth gehörte zwischen dem 20. November 1923 und dem 18. Mai 1927 sowie zwischen dem 17. Jänner 1928 und dem 1. Oktober 1930 als Abgeordneter dem Nationalrat an.

Literatur
 Johann Kriegler: Politisches Handbuch des Burgenlandes. Band 1: (1921–1938). Rötzer, Eisenstadt 1972.

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Базилики, василики () — используемое с XI века название византийского законодательного свода из 60 книг, работа над которым была начата в правление императора Василия I и закончена при его сыне Льве Мудром. Данный свод включал как светское, так и церковное законодательство.

Возникновение

Предпосылки
Одним из следствий происходившей в VIII веке в Византии борьбы иконопочитателей и иконоборцев, завершившейся Вторым Никейским собором в 787 году, стал застой во всех науках, в том числе и в правоведении. Некоторый перелом наступил при Михаиле Менисте благодаря усилиям кесаря Варды. Вместе с тем последний законодательный памятник предшествующего иконоборческого периода, Эклога Льва III Исавра, утратил своё значение. Таким образом юристы снова вернулись к законодательству Юстиниана, формально не отменённому, из которого в судебной практике в аутентичном тексте продолжали использоваться только новеллы.

Использование этого законодательного материала было сопряжено с трудностями. К рассматриваемому периоду оригинальное законодательство Юстиниана было вытеснено греческими переводами и толкованиями юристов времён Юстиниана. Поскольку между ними существовали противоречия, не помогало даже преимущественно использование трудов какого-то одного автора (так, среди комментаторов Институций имел вес Феофил, Дигест — Стефан и Дорофей, Кодекса — Фалелей), так как не существовало запрета использовать труды других комментаторов. В результате в ходе судебного процесса стороны могли прибегать к авторитету разных комментаторов. Другой причиной были терминологические трудности — к IX веку латинский язык начал выходить из употребления в судопроизводстве, и понятия, использовавшиеся юристами VI века, были не понятны. Разбросанное по четырём сводам законодательство Юстиниана было неудобно в использовании. И, наконец, многие его положения были либо отменены, либо устарели.

Реформа законодательства Василия I и Льва VI
Вскоре после вступления на престол Василий Македонянин, видя, по выражению Д. И. Азаревича, «всё безотрадное положение тогдашнего законодательства», поставил следующие цели по его реформированию: отменить устаревшие законы, предпринять т. н. «Ревизию древних законов» () с целью устранения противоречий в оставляемых законах и составить руководство к праву для облегчения его изучения. В результате деятельности по достижению этих целей между 870 и 878 годами было обнародовано Руководство к познанию законов. Одновременно с этим происходила «ревизия», завершившаяся изданием не дошедшего до нашего времени свода из 40 книг.

В период между 884 и 886 годами вышло второе издание Прохирона под названием Эпанагоги. Позднее, в первые годы правления Льва Мудрого, вышло новое издание «Ревизии», которое получило название Василики. В начале одной из рукописей Василик (cod. Paris gr. 1352) приводится указ императора Льва, в котором он порицает Юстиниана за то, что тот разделил законодательный материал на четыре части. Этот недостаток Лев попытался устранить, собрав все законы в один шеститомный свод, состоящий из 60 книг. Тот факт, что в предисловии к Василикам «Ревизия» не упоминается, служил для некоторых исследователей основанием утверждать, что последняя не была закончена и обнародована. В любом случае, уже к 920 году память об этом проекте императора Василия была утрачена.

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Основной текст
Помимо деления на шесть томов, из которого известно из предисловия к Василикам, есть упоминания и о другом, вероятно, неофициальном, делении, на четыре тома. Далее эти тома делились на 60 книг. Добавление 20 книг по сравнению с 40 книгами «Ревизии» проистекало не только из-за того, что был добавлен новый материал, но и потому, что одни и те же предметы излагались в разных книгах. При этом некоторые предметы в Эпанагоге не рассматривались, а другие рассматривались в Василиках в меньшем числе книг. Отдельные книги распадаются на титулы (), число которых в различных книгах различно, а общее количество составляло 630. Титулы, в свою очередь, состоят из глав (), которые часто, следуя примеру, заданному юристами Юстиниана, подразделяются на параграфы (). В некоторых случаях отдельные параграфы Дигест опущены в Василиках.

«Василики» не отражают нормы Свода законов Юстиниана, которые по мнению создателей не имеют практическое применения (например титулы Дигест 1 и 2 о правосудии и происхождении права). При этом в целом переработка и оптимизация правовых институтов ранее, отраженных в Эклоге и Своде законов Юстиниана, проведены недостаточным образом. Так в «Василики» отражены не актуальные и устаревшие должности (например римские консулы, императорские легаты), а также наименование областей давно не входящих в состав Византии (например Египет и Скифия).

Значительное количество норм в «Василики» занимают нормы публичного и церковного права (книга 6 — о государственных должностях, книги 1,2-5 — о церкви). При этом, нормам частного права и правому положению различных лиц уделяется большее место (книга 46 — о статусе свободных людей, книга 48 — о рабах, книга 55 — о крестьянах). В судебной практике Византии зачастую использовались нормы «Василик», регулирующие обязательственные отношения (книга 19 — о купле-продажи, книга — о поручительстве).

Издание «Василик» отнюдь не означало утрату силу Свода законов Юстиниана, которой при этом использовалось все реже. Начиная с конца XII в. «Василики» остались единственным действующим сводом законов византийского права. В полном виде «Василик» не сохранились.

Ряд книг в том числе книга 50 — о праве собственности и владении сохранились лишь частично. Рубрики отдельных титулов различны в разных рукописях Василик, поэтому восстановление оригинального оглавления Василик представляет некоторую трудность.

Во многие рукописях «Василик» наряду с текстом норм самих также встречаются схолии (пояснения византийский юристов).

Схолии
Текст Василик снабжён схолиями, которые могут быть разделены на две группы — так называемые «древние» схолии, представляющие собой отрывки из сочинений
юристов VI века, и поздние схолии, основанные на трудах юристов XI—XII веков. К последним относят Евстафия Романа, Иоанна Номофилакса, Калокира Секста, Патцеса и др.. Несмотря на то, что схолии не имели официального значения, они зачастую использовались византийскими судьями.

Источники
Главным источником Василик был Corpus iuris civilis, преимущественно в его греческой обработке, поскольку только они находились в практическом использовании; Novellae Constitutiones были взяты из сборника 168 новелл. Другим несомненным источником Василик был Прохирон. Другие новеллы, в том числе и новеллы самого Льва Мудрого в рассматриваемый свод не вошли. Общий способ использования кодекса Юстиниана был следующим: вначале шёл текст древнего юриста из Дигест, затем — соответствующие ему места из Институций и Новелл.

Стремясь уничтожить коллизии между различными комментаторами, Лев при заимствовании текста в Василики отдавал предпочтение какому-то одному из них. Также была выполнена работа по переводу латинской терминологии и исключению устаревшего материала. Однако полностью достигнуть этой цели не удалось. В Василиках постоянно упоминаются области, давно утраченные Византией — Египет, Иллирия, Африка и другие. В первой книге Василик, посвящённой вопросам вероисповедания, упоминаются давно побеждённые ереси — донатисты, несториане, монтанисты и т. д. В других книгах встречаются устаревшие должности, а для оставшихся в некоторых случаях поменялся их смысл.

Значение

В юридической практике

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По мнению А П. Каждана, значение Василик в качестве исторического источника крайне ограничено в силу огромного количества содержащихся в тексте анахронизмов. Эта точка зрения оспаривалась М. Я. Сюзюмовым, отмечавшего при этом необходимость учёта специфики данного источника.

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Некоторые книги (XIX, XXXI—XXXIV, XXXVI, XXXVII) Василик в дошедших до нашего времени рукописях не сохранились и могут быть восстановлены только по более поздним юридическим документам.

Первое в Западной Европе издание Василик предприняли братья  и .

Современное издание Василик началось в 1946 году. Первый том вышел в 1953 году, а последний, 17-й том появился в 1988. Издание состояло из 8 томов собственно Василик, и 9 томов схолий. При подготовке этого издания была проведена огромная работа по объединению текста памятника, не сохранившегося целиком ни в одной рукописи.

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Tadeusz Godycki-Ćwirko (ur. 20 stycznia 1926 w Kaczanowcach, zm. 2 marca 2020) – polski inżynier, prof. zw. dr hab. inż. Doktor honoris causa Politechniki Łódzkiej i honorowy profesor Politechniki Krakowskiej.

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W 1954 ukończył studia na Wydziale Budownictwa Lądowego Politechniki Gdańskiej, od 1952 pracował tam jako asystent. W 1962 obronił pracę doktorską, od 1963 był pracownikiem naukowym Politechniki Łódzkiej. W 1966 uzyskał stopień doktora habilitowanego. W 1972 nadano mu tytuł profesora w zakresie nauk technicznych. W latach 1973–1975 dziekan Wydziału Budownictwa i Architektury. W 1986 powrócił do Gdańska, pracował w Katedrze Konstrukcji Betonowych i Technologii Betonu na Wydziale Inżynierii Lądowej i Środowiska Politechniki Gdańskiej oraz w Katedrze Konstrukcji Budowlanych na Wydziale Budownictwa i Inżynierii Środowiska Uniwersytetu Technologicznego i Przyrodniczego im. Jana i Jędrzeja Śniadeckich w Bydgoszczy.

Był członkiem Komitetu Inżynierii Lądowej i Wodnej Polskiej Akademii Nauk, a także członkiem Honorowym Polskiego Związku Inżynierów i Techników Budownictwa.

Pochowany na gdańskim Cmentarzu Srebrzysko (rejon IV, taras III-1-80).

Odznaczenia i wyróżnienia
 Medale PZITB im. prof. Stefana Kaufmana i im. prof. Romana Ciesielskiego
 Krzyż Kawalerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski
 Krzyż Oficerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski
 Odznaki i nagrody licznych gremiów naukowych, zawodowych i społecznych
 Krzyż Komandorski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski
 Medal Komisji Edukacji Narodowej,
 Medal Prezydenta Miasta Gdańska
 Złoty Medal za Zasługi dla Politechniki Gdańskiej.

Przypisy

Absolwenci Politechniki Gdańskiej
Polscy inżynierowie
Wykładowcy Politechniki Gdańskiej
Wykładowcy Wydziału Budownictwa, Architektury i Inżynierii Środowiska Politechniki Łódzkiej
Członkowie Komitetu Inżynierii Lądowej i Wodnej PAN
Doktorzy honoris causa Politechniki Łódzkiej
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Oficerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Komandorskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski
Odznaczeni Medalem Komisji Edukacji Narodowej
Pochowani na Cmentarzu Srebrzysko w Gdańsku
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Ralph Hewitt: The question that got under Boris Johnson's skin
By Ralph Hewitt Twitter Email
After meeting Boris Johnson for the second time since he became Prime Minister, I couldn't have imagined getting under his skin quite so much.
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The surroundings and relaxed atmosphere of Tayto Castle in Tandragee during his November election campaign seemed a world away when I spoke to him yesterday in Stormont's Great Hall.
My question to the Prime Minister was whether his visit to Northern Ireland was simply a photo opportunity or publicity stunt. I thought to myself: "What's the best way I can put this without annoying Boris?"
That thought was still in my head as he began to call out the names of journalists who had been allowed to quiz the most powerful man in the country.
First Minister Arlene Foster and deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill and the new Executive meets with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Secretary of State Julian Smith. Photo by William Cherry/Presseye
Boris Johnson met with first and deputy first ministers Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill and NI Secretary Julian Smith at Stormont Castle to mark the restoration of devolution in NI. Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press
Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking in the Great Hall of Parliament Buildings, Stormont during a visit where he met First Minister Arlene Foster and deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill and the new Executive. Photo by William Cherry/Presseye
Boris Johnson speaks to the media at Stormont after meetings with Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill and NI Secretary Julian Smith after the restoration of devolution in NI. Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press
Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar and Prime Minister, Boris Johnson meet at Stormont on January 13, 2020 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Julian Smith (left), Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar (centre left), Prime Minister, Boris Johnson (centre right) and Ireland's deputy premier, Tanaiste, Simon Coveney (right) in the Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast. PA Photo. Picture date: Monday January 13, 2020. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
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Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, speaking in the Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast, whilst on a visit to meet the leaders of the restored powersharing government. PA Photo. Picture date: Monday January 13, 2020. See PA story ULSTER Politics. Photo credit should read: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Secretary of State Julian Smith meet with First Minister Arlene Foster and deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill.
BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - JANUARY 13: Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Julian Smith (R) are greeted by First Minister, Arlene Foster of the DUP (2nd R) and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill (2nd L) of Sinn Fein at Stormont on January 13, 2020 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, speaking in the Parliament Buildings, Stormont. Photo credit: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left) and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Julian Smith (right) during their visit to Stormont, Belfast to meet the leaders of the restored powersharing government. PA Photo. Picture date: Monday January 13, 2020. See PA story ULSTER Politics. Photo credit should read: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
Then it came.
Mr Johnson announced, "Ralph Hewitt from the Belfast Telegraph", and I just blurted the question out - immediately forgetting how I would pose it to him.
He looked and me and angrily asked, "really?", "photo opportunity?" and "publicity stunt?"
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I just wanted the floor to swallow me up at that point.
But in his usual fashion the PM quickly reneged and was happy to answer as he gave his backing to the new power-sharing Assembly.
He said with a smile that the question was "a little bit harsh from the Belfast Telegraph" but it's safe to say there were no free boxes of Tayto crisps this time.


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American Cornbread | Recipes from American History
If there is one ingredient that is truly American and influenced history, that ingredient would be corn. Corn is indigenous to North and South America and was a huge part of the Native Americans' diet. It also saved the lives of numerous settlers in the early 1600s and by the 1700s was eaten every single day by the colonists.
Young or old, rich or poor, fat or thin, corn was a staple few could do without. It was easy to grow and make into different dishes, like American cornbread. One could dry it and eat parched corn or Johnnycakes while traveling or make it into a filling porridge. Corn could be eaten whole or ground into meal and was extremely versatile.
Week 9 of Dave Raymond's American History course covers "Fathers of Independence: Adams, Franklin, Witherspoon, and Henry". Ben Franklin was famous for having strong opinions on various subjects, which included the humble American vegetable corn.
Like most colonists, Franklin was a great lover of corn and said so in a letter to the Gazetteer, a newspaper in London. Franklin was writing in response to the Stamp Act, which was putting a heavy tax on tea among other things. Franklin wrote, "Vindex Patriaem a writer in your paper, comforts himself, and the India Company, with the fancy, that the Americans, should they resolve to drink no more tea, can by no means keep that Resolution, their Indian corn not affording 'an agreeable, or easy digestible breakfast.' Pray let me, an American, inform the gentlemen, who seems ignorant of the matter, that Indian corn, take it for all in all, is one of the most agreeable and wholesome grains in the world…and that johnny or hoecake, hot from the fire, is better than a Yorkshire muffin…"
While corn has lost much of its use in later years, Americans still enjoy popcorn with butter, tortilla chips, and the classic American cornbread. There were actually two types of cornbread made in America; the northern and southern versions. The southern version was made without flour and just used cornmeal as its base, while the northern version was made with a mixture of cornmeal and wheat flour. The recipe below is my mother's but is probably closely accurate to what would have been made in the mid-to-late 1700s, as it calls for baking soda and not baking powder, which was not used until the 1850s.
American Cornbread
1/2 c. butter
1 c. buttermilk
1 c. cornmeal
Grease a 9" square pan and set aside. Preheat the oven to 275 F.
Combine the buttermilk and baking soda in small bowl and set aside. In a large pot, melt butter. Remove from heat and stir in sugar. Quickly add and beat in eggs. Add buttermilk+baking soda mixture, then stir in cornmeal, flour, and salt.
Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 18-22 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
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By my count, there were 0 NEW databases ADDED this past week, per the list above. There are now 32,916 databases available as of 6 August, a decrease of 2 from last week.
Which two databases did Ancestry delete or merge last week? Or did they count wrong? Inquiring minds want to know.


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Home > College of Arts & Sciences > Sociology > National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles > 207
National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles
FP-19-24 Marriage to Divorce Ratio in the U.S.: Geographic Variation, 2018
Valerie J. Schweizer, Bowling Green State University
Schweizer, Valerie J., "FP-19-24 Marriage to Divorce Ratio in the U.S.: Geographic Variation, 2018" (2019). National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles. 207.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/ncfmr_family_profiles/207


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What does it mean when an ex/friend says she loves me?
My ex and I still hang out a decent amount since we have many mutual friends and we have been able to go back to being friends. At one of these hangouts, she was giving me shit and afterwards said she was kidding and that she loves me. I assume she meant this as a friendly love, but is it possible she still has feelings for me?
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Anything is possible. But I wouldn't read too much into it. You can always ask her.
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I wouldn't assume it means anything. But if you're interested in more than friends with her, ask her out. See what happens, but if you're not interested, don't worry about the comment and move on.
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it means she wants to get back with u but tbh it could also be a game, once she has u, might not care coz the chasing game stopped
Ask her..........


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Home All Articles PLO marks 30 years for Palestinian declaration of independence
PLO marks 30 years for Palestinian declaration of independence
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officials marked on Thursday 30 years for Palestinian declaration of independence, calling for the world's endorsement of Palestinian statehood despite continuation of Israeli occupation.
The West Bank and Gaza Strip observed a day off in commemoration of the 1988 Declaration of Independence.
PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat said in a statement that the mark of independence declaration "sums up the will and legitimate national aspirations of the Palestinian people in achieving independence."
Erekat said in a press statement that Palestine is pressing ahead with efforts "to hold Israel and war criminals accountable for all their violations until justice is served."
Hanan Ashrawi, PLO executive committee member, said that through its declaration of independence, "the Palestinian leadership proclaimed its support for the two-state solution, international law and United Nations resolutions, as well as its unwavering commitment to the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people."
Palestinian Government Spokesman Yousef Al-Mahmoud said in a press statement that "we are determined to build the institutions of a civil, democratic state where all Palestinians live in equality and justice …"
Late Palestinian leader Yaser Arafat, who died in a French Hospital on Nov. 11, 2004, made the Palestinian declaration of independence when the Palestinian National Council, better known as the Palestinian parliament in exile, was held in Algeria on Nov. 15, 1988.
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Q: Best way to compare an iterator values and an enum for matching values in java I have an iterator that loops through a values with a simple hasNext() function. I also have an enum that contains certain values. I would like to find all the matching values between the enum and the iterator.
I'm trying to do this hopefully with the best performance both runtime and space wise.
Thanks.
For reference to code (it's a simple straightforward case but feel free to ask for more code:
Iterator iterator = user.userTasks.iterator(); //loops through current users tasks
        while(iterator.hasNext()) {
            UserTask userTask = (userTask)iterator.next();
            //want to compare userTask above with values from a java enum for any matches

The enum has a string field and that is what I'm trying to match to this iterators field too. So, a field of the iterator to a field of the enum.

A: Based on your description, you need to match the enum field with and Iterator field.
First lets create an ENUM with a String field.
public enum ExampleEnum {

    ONE("one"),
    TWO("two"),
    THREE("three"),
    FOUR("four");

    private String eName;

    ExampleEnum(String eName) {
        this.eName = eName;
    }

    public String geteName(){
        return eName;
    }

    public static Stream<ExampleEnum> stream() {
        return Stream.of(ExampleEnum.values());
    }
}

Use a simple ArrayList as an Iterator in your case replace it with UserTask Iterator.
String[] arr = {"one", "five", "six", "three", "eleven", "two", "four"};
List<String> arrayList = Arrays.asList(arr);
Iterator<String> iterator = arrayList.iterator();

while(iterator.hasNext()){
    String compare = iterator.next();
    ExampleEnum.stream()
    .filter(d -> d.geteName().equals(compare))
    .forEach(System.out::println);
}

I'm using Java 8, I guess in Java 9 can be done more easily.

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I know you're just trying to be kind. But the world isn't always kind. So sometimes you have to know what you're up against, and match it.' He held up a hand to stop the words about to be spoken; I could see the vague shape of it hovering in the blackness. 'I know it's not right to fight fire with fire. But sometimes, it's all we've got." His voice grew soft, and, in the darkness, his hand found mine, squeezed. 'Don't put your fire out, Kaitlyn. Use it, or pass the torch.
True beauty is a warm heart, a kind soul, and an attentive ear.


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On song but no record: 3m tune in for The Voice finale
By Michael Idato
June 19, 2012 — 9.12am
They came, wept and sang, as Australia cheered from the sidelines. But in the end only one of the four finalists in the television talent competition The Voice could walk away a winner.
Karise Eden, 19, took the title of "the voice", defeating Sarah de Bono, 19, Rachael Leahcar, 17, and Darren Percival, 40.
"You've shown me a new way, a new light, a new everything," an emotional Eden said, after a tension-charged 120-minute finish to the TV show which has, for three months, dominated the national conversation.
Last night's final broadcast of The Voice was watched by 2.65 million people with 3.09 million people tuning in at the end to see Karise Eden win. For ratings purposes the main show and the winner's announcement are "coded" separately.
It's an outstanding win for Nine in every way, but in real terms it probably falls slightly short of where Nine might have felt it could land.
The record-holding reality TV finale - the conclusion to the second season of Masterchef Australia in 2010 which was watched by 3.9 million people in the five capital city "markets" - remains unbroken.
Like The Voice, that series delieved almost two million viewers every week but produced a finale with a significantly larger result.
It also means last night's final does not crack the top 5 reality TV "events", a chart which is dominated by only two programs: Masterchef Australia and Australian Idol.
Karise Eden celebrates with her family after winning The Voice. Credit:Mick Tsikas
Top Rating Reality TV Broadcasts post-2001:
2010 MasterChef Australia Winner (10) 3.9m
2009 MasterChef Australia Winner (10) 3.56m
2004 Australian Idol Winner (10) 3.34m
2009 Masterchef Australia Final Night (10) 3.31m
In another interesting ratings wrinkle, Sunday night's pre-final program - marketed as the first of two "final" shows - attracted only 2.24 million viewers, only a modest a nudge up from the show's weekly audience.
Darren Percival, Rachael Leahcar, Karise Eden and Sarah de Bono. De Bono was expected to win on the back of mentor Joel Madden's massive social media following.
It was also slightly less than Nine might have expected, and confirms the audience very easily detected the lack of jeopardy.
It also confirms Nine would be taking a big risk if they stretch the second season, as they are widely expected to.
Karise Eden performs after winning The Voice. Credit:Mick Tsikas
Irrespective of the fine print, The Voice remains a ratings powerhouse and a major victory for Nine.
It has redefined the landscape and seen off some formidable competition, notably Seven's Dancing With the Stars and Australia's Got Talent. Both shows performed well below their series average against The Voice.
It has also delivered Nine a so-called "halo effect", lifting the network's performance overall in the 25-54-year-old audience demographic and, when grouped with other hits such as The Block and Celebrity Apprentice, repaired much of Nine's lost glory.
One of Nine's biggest windfalls is roughly $150,000 per 30-second commercial break in the final segments of the telecast.
Nine and several other stakeholders - including the record company Universal Music and Apple, via its online music retailer iTunes, also stand to benefit from album sales and a share of tour revenue.
Eden's win exposes social media's loss
Eden's victory was an unexpected blow to the power of social media. De Bono walked into the final a favourite, backed by her mentor Joel Madden and wife Nicole Ritchie's combined Twitter following of roughly four million people.
The big prize is a recording contract with Universal Music, $100,000 in cash and a car. The runners-up, Percival, Leahcar and De Bono, take cash prizes of $30,000, $20,000 and $10,000 respectively.
But television fame is a curious and sometimes very generous beast. Off the back of two million viewers every week since it launched in April, it is understood all four finalists have albums and tours already in development.
Nine has confirmed it will produced a second series of The Voice. Applications for hopeful contestants open today.
Michael Idato is the culture editor-at-large of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.Connect via Twitter or email.
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Q: What is the most recommend way to transfer data from a postgresl db to another postgresdb in aws We have a production postgresql db available only in glue catalog.  What's the best practices to ETL some tables in this database and load the data into another postgresql instance in the same aws account?
This production database is our transactional db and we don't need most of it's tables.  We already have some glue ETL's creating tables in S3 (so accessible via Athena) but the goal here is to load into another postgresql instance.
Thanks


Naturalization is the process of a foreign citizen being granted United States citizenship. Before you can apply for citizenship with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), you must first meet all the requirements. This article will help you determine whether you are eligible to submit an Application for Naturalization (Form N-400) with the USCIS.
to participate in federal programs as U.S. citizens.
If your one or both of your parents are U.S. citizens, you may have an automatic or easier path to citizenship.
Those who are born internationally to parents which includes at least one U.S. citizen will usually qualify.
Demonstrate that you have exhibited good moral character and conduct during the time you have resided in the U.S. as a lawful permanent resident.
Be able to fulfill civic duties and take the Oath of Allegiance.
If you are able to answer "yes" to all of the requirements above, you're probably ready to begin the second step – preparing your application and beginning the process of U.S citizenship through naturalization.


Many Minions have unique Minion Abilities.
Battlecries are special abilities which take effect when Minions enter play. There are a number of different Battlecries unique to certain Minions.
Charge allows a Minion to attack the turn it comes into play.
This effect occurs once the minion is killed.
It protects a minion for one hit no matter how much damage is dealt it. Once hit the shield is removed.
This ability is activated once the minion takes damage.
This ability causes a minion to be unable to attack for one turn.
Any damage caused by a minion with poison will kill the damaged minion by the end of the turn.
This ability removes all the abilities a minion has.
This ability prevents a minion from being the target of a spell or attack. Stealth is removed once the minion attacks.
This ability increases the spell damage of Spell Cards. This does not affect Hero Powers.
Taunt is an agro ability. When a Minion with Taunt is on the battlefield, enemy characters may not attack other Characters or Heroes. The Taunting Minion or Minions must be destroyed first. Although, spells may bypass this Taunt.
Windfury Windfury allows a Minion to attack twice in the same turn.


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UK Gambling Commission executive director Tim Miller did his best to rally the troops, when he challenged operators to provide a safer gambling environment rather than worrying solely about problem gamblers.
Miller presented the industry with an opportunity to change the media narrative and re-create the industry as one the public can trust. His emphasis on "safer gambling" rather than "responsible gambling" is an interesting gambit.


Born and raised in Cornwall, Larry Johns has earned a living as a soldier, an artist, a jazz musician, a music lecturer and a writer, circumnavigating the world in these professions many times. He learned the mechanics of one of his trades with the Staff Band of the Royal Engineers and at Kneller Hall School of Music. He learned the mechanics of his other trades in other branches of the military and, of course, the wider school of life.
After his stint in the military he moved directly to London, where he occupied the lead saxophone chair with several big bands, whilst jazzing at many nightspots; most notably ; The "100 Club", Oxford Street; the "Allnighter", Soho and "The Bull's Head" at Barnes.
At these and other venues he blew jazz shoulder-to-shoulder with Vic Ash, Harry Klein, Brian Dee, Joe Temperley et al. One of his enduring memories of those heady be-bop days is of swapping "fours" with the legendary vibraphonist Vic Feldman immediately prior to his moving to the U.S. to join the Woody Herman Orchestra... During this period he also played repiano clarinet with an embryonic London Symphonietta and several smaller classical combinations. Latterly, he was one of Charlie Katz's * "session men", performing on numerous "hit" (and "not-so-hit") recordings of the day.
Later, he worked directly for several recording companies: Decca, H.M.V., Major-Minor, Philips etc. holding the "Artists and Repertoire" position with most. With Mercury records, he fronted various stage bands on promotional tours across Europe and the Far East, working alongside rising stars of the recording world, Phil Coulter and Mike Leander..
*Charlie Katz: Affectionately known as "The Fixer". Charlie was the conduit to the best recording work in London.
*Geraldo was a bandleader, and very hard to please. He ended up supplying the transAtlantic cruise run with musicians. You didn't get the "cream" gigs - the "Queens" etc - unless you were in his "navy".
I am a war baby and, as such, am to be pitied. Questions like "which war" will be steadfastly ignored. The bare fact that I was actually born is more than enough information to be going on with. It is pertinent to say that I spent all of my formative years living within a spit of the Atlantic The sea played a huge role in my development. So did music. Not just the "pop" music of the day, but all kinds. Of course, it helped that the pop music of my young days included all kind of music! Remember Mantovani? Dave Brubeck? Dylan? Peter, Paul and Mary? Bill Haley? Alma Cogan? Mantovani and his Music of the blasted Mountains! Et al! Magic days. Days longer, brighter, warmer and fuller that the post-formative ones. Or so it seemed... But that's regressive.
After the military, I did what most army musicians did - I joined the big band circuit in London, which inevitably led to the recording session scene. Demanding work, that. But hellishly rewarding. Though I will not be specific, I can be heard footling about on records you may well have in your possession. They'll be antiques now, of course. Just like myself. And, if you do own one, you too, for that matter!
Above: On board the "Queen Mary", when I was single, footloose, and often plastered. On rough trips the bell of my saxophone (a baritone on that gig) would frequently hit the deck. I don't remember the guys' names but I'll never forget the times we had criss-crossing the Atlantic. I met Elaine on a concert tour. Elaine and her brother, Derek - who is currently playing "Charlie" in the BBC series, "Casualty" - were on the bill and I was M.D. for the tour. A little imagination and you'll get the picture.
Above: I was not too strong on recording stuff for posterity back in those days, the couple of clips here were recorded off the radio by my dear old mother, using the highly technical mic-in-front-of-the-speaker method! By now, I was painting and writing novels in my spare time, of which there was an abundance. Later, I was fortunate enough to have a novel published. I am currently working on my twelfth. The painting started selling, too. Rosy times! Now, two children later, we are back home in Cornwall. The gaps need filling, because they are. huge. But that will come later?
Above: This beauty, "Shadowfax", will fill one of the gaps. We sunk a not-so-small fortune into her, in Bahrain. Lost the lot, plus the houses of several family members. That's me, leaning nonchalantly against the wheelhouse, and mum, bless her, emerging from the up-and-over. Elaine took the photograph.
Above: Being lifted out of the water at Falmouth. Powered by two jet engines, one of them was about to blow up!
Above: Picture courtesy of a Bahraini newspaper, proving that the venture could have actually worked, given more time. But time, as we all know, is no respecter of personage, and it ran out for us at the very last gasp. But here's the thing. If Shadowfax had run its course I would not be here now, doing what I am doing. And, where I am now - with one or two minor exceptions - is where I should be.
Interesting and instructive though the Shadowfax era was, it wasn't me!
And here's something else... It is said that when one door closes, another one opens up. When the door closed on Shadowfax, leaving us stranded in Bahrain without a penny, chance had me in the bar of the Gulf Hotel(probably trying to scrounge a pint!) when the manager was lamenting the fact that they didn't have a photographer to cover an imminent event. And since I owned a camera... That chance led to me eventually becoming the photographer for the Gulf Air Magazine - The Falcon.
The picture below is that very one; a dinner or something for some Gulf Air bigwigs, and it started us back onto the road of fluidity again.
The Gulf Hotel, coincidentally was, and still is, owned by Gulf Air. So finding myself doing commissions for them is not such a giant leap of imagination. (Issue 18 Pictured below) It's not much to look at now, of course, but at the time it did ok for itself...and us!
The whole thing, Gulf Air included, was in its infancy and self-processing colour was not an option. I guess there is still a Gulf Air magazine today, and it's bound to be a full-colour glossy thing. But I haven't seen one, and am not interested in seeing one. It was all black and white (pictures) in those days. What I had not taken into account was the fact that if I took the pictures, I also had to develop and print them! This was a nightmare at first, and I spent most of my time with a copy of the Kodak "Dummy's Guide To Photography" on the bench beside me, having begged, stolen or borrowed an enlarger and all the kit and chemicals needed to produce prints. It actually beggars the imagination what you can achieve when your back is hard against the wall.
I have mentioned elsewhere that I am rubbish at drawing/painting figures. But it's strange how one thing leads to another...Below is a cartoon I was asked to take a stab at. This was going to be a monthly thing, but it never (thankfully) went that way. I think there were a couple more before the notion fizzled out completely. Not a great surprise, right?
If you're a photographer with a darkroom you'll no doubt recognize the word "reticulation". This was one of my major problems when it came to washing negatives. The tap water - the cold tap, that is - came at a temperature you could easily bath in! I had to run it over an ice bag simply to avoid reticulation. And too many times I didn't manage to do that. The "photographer" period lasted some two years, by which time I had redressed the financial-balance problem and the Status became more or less Quo again.


Dryocopus pileatus. AKA the Pileated Woodpecker. This one, an adult female (because she doesn't have a red line from bill to throat as the male does), made a visible presence in our backyard very early in the morning a few days ago. I say visible because she's been audibly present most of this summer but we've never actually caught a glimpse until now. Many folks believe they are rare but they are not. That reputation probably comes from the fact that they are quite skittish, as she was.
It was about 6:30 in the morning and I almost felt the vibration on our breakfast table from the drumming noise. Very loud. Looked out the back window, saw her about 30 yards away banging away at a not too healthy black birch. Put the big lens (100-400 mm zoom) on my camera, attached it to the tripod, went very quietly outside. Soon as I turned the corner — whoosh, big flapping striped wings and she was gone. Positioned the camera on the deck, aimed at the spot she had been persistently working on (later I saw the shards of wood on the ground) and waited. Target was in the shade so used a pretty high ISO (film speed) and had time to set the camera to shutter priority (1/80th sec), aperture around 8 to blur the background. About 20 minutes later she returned and started in on the birch and I started clicking away. She gave me almost a minute then she was gone, whoosh again. She hasn't been back since, though we hear her. A great moment.


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Der Hof zu St. Peter ist ein ehemaliger Grazer Edelhof. Seine Geschichte geht bis auf die Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts zurück. Bereits gegen Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts existierte der ursprüngliche Edelhof nicht mehr.

Geschichte
Der Hof zu St. Peter wurde in der Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts von Maruch Niesenberger erbaut. Niesenbergers Enkel verkaufte den Hof 1609 an Adam Kriebeneck welchen Veit Puetter und Blasius Sichler als Besitzer nachfolgten. Aufgrund von Steuerschulden wurde das Gut 1641 gepfändet und kam an Johann Friedrich Schritt. Als sein Sohn das Anwesen 1688 erbte, existierte der ursprüngliche Edelhof nicht mehr, sondern nur mehr eine Meierschaft mit den dazugehörigen Gülten. Im Jahr 1724 kam das Gut zur Herrschaft Eggenberg. Als Johann Max Edler von Pelikan 1728 den Besitz erwarb bestand er nur mehr aus Äckern, Wäldern, Weinbergen und Wiesen. Der Hof kam vor 1740 ab.

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Hof zu Sankt Peter
Herrenhaus in Österreich
Hof zu Sankt Peter
Erbaut im 16. Jahrhundert
Zerstört im 17. Jahrhundert
Sankt Peter


Nawaz Sharif, in full Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, (born December 25, 1949, Lahore, Pakistan), Pakistani businessman and politician who served as prime minister in 1990–93, 1997–98, and 2013–17.
After earning an LL.B. from the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Sharif joined his family's influential House of Ittefaq (Ittefaq Group), an industrial conglomerate with interests in sugar, steel, and textiles. Entering politics, he served as a member of a provincial council in Punjab; in 1981 he was appointed finance minister for the province, and, following elections in 1985, he rose to chief minister. As leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (since 1993 the Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz [PML-N]), the primary party of the Islamic Democratic Alliance coalition, he was first elected Pakistan's prime minister in October 1990. His election followed the dismissal of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto by Pres. Ghulam Ishaq Khan, who made use of a constitutional clause that gave him the authority, as president, to dismiss the elected government if he deemed that government to be corrupt or inefficient.
During his first term, Sharif initiated an ambitious program of economic reform, privatizing a range of state-owned businesses. Facing ongoing conflict over the Kashmir region and citing a need to secure itself against a nuclear India, Pakistan continued to defy U.S. calls for it to suspend its nuclear program; in response, the United States halted its financial assistance. Sharif also faced increasing opposition as he attempted to maintain the middle path between the Islamic right wing and the social democrats. In 1993 Sharif too was dismissed on grounds similar to those for which Bhutto had been ushered out of office. Bhutto then succeeded him, and Sharif continued to be her vocal opponent. In the 1997 elections held after Bhutto's next dismissal, Sharif returned to serve a second term as prime minister.
Soon after taking office for the second time, Sharif, backed by Bhutto, forced the elimination of the constitutional provision that had enabled his previous dismissal from office. Sharif also set about trimming the powers of the president and the military. His attempt to block the appointment of five additional judges to the Supreme Court late in the year, however, sparked a constitutional crisis. Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, another of Sharif's rivals, was later suspended from the court on a technicality. Rather than appoint a replacement for the chief justice, Pres. Farooq Leghari unexpectedly resigned from his post after bitterly accusing Sharif of attempting to grab sole power. The twin exits of the president and of the chief justice appeared to be another major triumph for Sharif.
Despite a strong mandate, Sharif's government faced severe problems. Austerity measures implemented at the behest of the International Monetary Fund reduced government spending at a time when about half the country's money was being allocated to servicing the debt. With an economy in shambles, enormous foreign debt, widespread corruption, graft, separatist fighting, and an ongoing dispute with neighbouring India, Sharif faced a difficult task in leading the country forward.
In the late 1990s, Pakistan's economic situation continued to deteriorate. Sanctions imposed by the West in response to the detonation of nuclear devices by Pakistan exacerbated the crisis, and in 1998 Pakistan was nearing bankruptcy. Sharif soon found himself in conflict with a new army commander, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, and in late 1999 allegedly refused to allow Musharraf's aircraft to land. Sharif was overthrown by Musharraf in a military coup d'état almost immediately and was subsequently tried on charges of hijacking and terrorism, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2000, having agreed to leave Pakistan for 10 years in exchange for having his jail sentence commuted, Sharif was released from prison and went into exile in Saudi Arabia.
Encouraged by a 2007 Supreme Court decision which ruled that he was free to reenter the country, Sharif returned to Pakistan in September of that year, hoping to galvanize public support for the removal of Musharraf's increasingly unpopular rule. The Musharraf government, however, bypassed the Supreme Court ruling and arranged for Sharif's summary arrest and deportation back to Saudi Arabia within hours of his return, a move perceived by many as flouting the law. In a visit to Saudi Arabia several weeks later, Musharraf requested that the Saudi leadership cooperate in keeping his opponent abroad until the elections scheduled for early the following year had been held; in response, King ʿAbd Allāh expressed a growing reluctance to maintain Saudi complicity in Sharif's exile.
In late November 2007, Musharraf permitted Sharif, along with his wife and brother, to arrive unimpeded in Pakistan on an aircraft provided by ʿAbd Allāh. Underscoring Sharif's sustained popularity, his arrival was marked by crowds of supporters; these celebrations were largely unhindered by police. Upon his return, Sharif registered to run in the elections set for the following January, though he announced his refusal to stand as prime minister under Musharraf and indicated that an opposition boycott of the vote remained an option. In addition, Sharif called for the return of a number of Supreme Court judges whom Musharraf, anticipating that they would rule to annul his reelection, had purged.
In December 2007 Bhutto, who had also recently been permitted to return to Pakistan, was assassinated while campaigning in Rawalpindi. In the elections of February 2008, the PML-N won about one-fourth of the parliamentary seats up for election, finishing second to Bhutto's party—led by her widower, Asif Ali Zardari—which captured about one-third of the seats. In March the two parties formed a coalition government.
Disagreements emerged within the governing coalition in the months following its formation, particularly regarding the reinstatement of the Supreme Court judges Musharraf had dismissed late the previous year, and these disputes threatened to destabilize the alliance. Nevertheless, in August 2008 the coalition moved to begin impeachment charges against Musharraf; on August 18, faced with the impending proceedings, Musharraf resigned. In light of ongoing differences, including disputes over Musharraf's successor, Sharif subsequently withdrew the PML-N from the governing coalition and indicated that his party would put forth its own candidate in the presidential elections announced for early September. In the election, however, the candidates of neither the PML-N nor Musharraf's party won enough support to pose a challenge to Zardari, and on September 6, 2008, he was elected president.
Friction between Zardari and Sharif intensified in February 2009 when the Supreme Court voted to disqualify Sharif's brother from his position as chief minister of Punjab and to uphold a ban prohibiting Sharif himself from holding political office (the ban stemmed from his 2000 hijacking conviction). Sharif alleged that the court's rulings were politically motivated and backed by Zardari. Meanwhile, the status of the Supreme Court judges dismissed under Musharraf who had yet to be reinstated remained a major source of conflict between the two rivals. In March 2009 Sharif broke free of an attempt to place him under house arrest and headed toward the capital, where he planned to hold a rally in support of the reinstatement of the judges. Faced with this prospect, the government agreed to reinstate Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and a number of other Supreme Court judges who had not yet been returned to their posts, a move seen as a significant political victory for Sharif. Sharif's brother was also returned to his position shortly thereafter. In late May the Supreme Court reversed the February ruling that had upheld a ban curbing Sharif's political activity, and in July Sharif was acquitted of hijacking charges. With the last of the legal blockages against him removed, Sharif was cleared to hold public office. Sharif remained a vocal critic of Zardari and the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP), accusing the incumbents of corruption and economic ineptitude.
Sharif executed a remarkable political comeback in 2013, securing a third term as prime minister when the PML-N won a resounding victory in the May legislative elections. The victory was not without controversy, though. The rival Tehreek-e-Insaf party, led by Imran Khan, denounced the elections as rigged and held protests in Islamabad for several months.
At the forefront of the agenda for the incoming administration were three issues identified as "the three E's"—economy, energy, and extremism. Under Sharif the economy improved substantially, with higher growth rates, a stable rupee, and lower inflation. Energy and extremism, though, proved more challenging. Electricity demand continued to outpace supply, resulting in frequent and widespread shortages that were often exacerbated by the overall fragility of Pakistan's power infrastructure.
In terms of foreign policy, Sharif stepped on the toes of military leaders by pushing for improved relations with India, pledging not to meddle in Afghanistan after the 2014 withdrawal of NATO troops, and seeking a settlement with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an Islamist insurgency based in Pakistan and unaffiliated with the Taliban in Afghanistan. These positions were at odds with the military's security interests. When opposition protests in 2014 provided a premise for the military to oust Sharif with popular support, the military instead used the opportunity to pressure Sharif to submit to the military on matters of foreign policy and defense.
Meanwhile, the government struggled to respond to extremist attacks. After a devastating attack by the TTP on a school in Peshawar killed about 150 people in December 2014, the government instituted a 20-point National Action Plan against extremism, which included measures for regulating religious institutions and trying terrorism suspects before military tribunals instead of civilian courts. Although at the outset the plan appeared to have widespread support throughout Pakistani society, political and institutional rivalries soon reemerged, hampering implementation.
In 2017 Sharif's third term as prime minister came to an end when he was forced to resign as a result of a corruption probe. Suspicions of corruption—a constant accompaniment throughout Sharif's political career—were amplified in 2015 when a trove of international financial documents known as the Panama Papers were leaked to the press, including information linking three of Sharif's children to shell companies that had been used to purchase real estate abroad. Sharif denied any wrongdoing, but the Supreme Court voted in July 2017 to disqualify him from holding office. He stepped down and was replaced by Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. Sharif, his wife, and his children left for London, while his brother Shehbaz Sharif was selected to lead the PML-N in the next elections.
In July 2018 Nawaz Sharif was convicted in absentia of having owned assets beyond his income and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. His influential daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif was convicted of having abetted a crime and was sentenced to 7 years in prison. Though they continued to deny any wrongdoing, they returned to Lahore on July 13 to serve their sentences.
Sharif's wife, Kulsoom, died of cancer on September 11. Nawaz and Maryam were granted furlough in order to attend her funeral in Lahore. They returned to prison after five days. Days later, on September 19, a court suspended their sentences, and they were released while their appeals were considered. On December 24 he was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined $25 million after being unable to prove the source of income that had allowed him to obtain one of his assets.


Ok first of all i am one of those unlucky guys who has to develop things with Lotus Domino. Especially the formula language is kind of crap (my personal opinion).
But anyway i had to program a calendar and therefore i needed to get the week number of a given date. Thanks to the notesweb where i found an almost working version, i just needed to patch it a bit. Here is my final code which seems to work (at least for my purpose).


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Following an incredible first-round playoff series against the Los Angeles Clippers, the San Antonio Spurs' attempt to win back-to-back championships has officially come to an end. Despite a valiant effort against Chris Paul and company, the Spurs will head into an off-season filled with uncertainty.
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The Spurs are one of many teams in the league with a roster that could look drastically different next season. Although San Antonio is known for not pursuing big-name free agents, the five-time NBA champions appear to have a great chance of landing Texas native LaMarcus Aldridge this summer.
According to ESPN's Marc Stein, the Spurs may attempt to trade Tiago Splitter in order for more financial flexibility in free agency:
One scenario on the personnel grapevine gaining steam is the notion that the Spurs could elect to explore the possibility of dealing away Tiago Splitter to create more financial flexibility. Splitter has two years left on his contract valued at just under $17 million and is quietly regarded as a key contributor in San Antonio given how well he fits as a frontcourt sidekick next to Duncan. But if you're the Spurs — and if the increasingly loud rumbles about Aldridge having San Antonio as the preferred destination atop his wish list prove true — examining Splitter's trade market might suddenly become unavoidable.
As of right now, the teams rumored to be interested in Aldridge include the Spurs, Dallas Mavericks, New York Knicks, Portland Trail Blazers and Los Angeles Lakers. Even though the Lakers and Knicks will have the cap space and attractive destinations in terms of location, the two Texas squad appear to have the edge moving forward.
The Spurs will be an intriguing option for Aldridge with arguably the best head coach in the game, Gregg Popovich, intent on returning and the team still a potential title contender next season. San Antonio will have to figured out what the immediate future holds for Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili, as well as locking up Kawhi Leonard long-term, but they'll still be in good position regardless to sign Aldridge.
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Today we released the fifth and hopefully final beta release for the three core modules dune-common, dune-grid, dune-istl and the dune-grid-howto. We fixed several bugs concernig the documentation, beside these the code seems to be fairly mature.
Go to the download page, grab the packages, test them!


Ah stationery heaven, all the varieties, options… Thanks for sharing this!
The A6 leather-cover notebook on the lower right corner has the number 438 on it. Is that … the price?!
How do the price of Faber-Castell erasers compare to Europe (can't tell the brand for those other erasers you purchased)? What about the price and quality of the Redcircle vs Rotring?
In China one can easily get Noris for 1/2 and Mars Lumograph 100 for 1/3 the Canadian price, yet the Canadian price seems comparable with the German price (at least for the handful of shops I visited). So I wonder where the price advantage comes from. I mean, it's understandable if these items are made in Asia, but I thought at least Lumograph 100 would be imported from Germany, shouldn't they cost more?
Nice photos, memm. These modern shops (they are the same here in Australia..'Kikki K' is a good example and 'Smiggle'). Kinokuniya, Sydney is about the closest thing to the aisle based store (although it is part of the huge Kinokuniya Bookstore) and not too neat and tidy The big problem with Kinokuniya is they double and triple wrap their price stickers on the item with the most disgusting, almost impossible to remove sticky tape imaginable. Almost everything I have bought from there has left a sticky, horrendous mess on the item…really crazy.
There's something missing about all these modern stores though, and that is…got it…it's the smell of an old style Art Shop, irresistible. It's the same smell all over the world, at least where I've been anyway. It's like an aphrodisiac to me and the modern clinical store just can't beat them.
Claire, these are Midori traveler's notebooks, they are really that expensive.
Many (most?) FC erasers are made in Malaysia and as far as I can tell they are actually the same erasers, just in a different sleeve. I only have plasticy mechanical pencils from Rotring, so I cannot really comment on the quality difference between Redcircle and Rotring.
About the pencil prices, if you buy them in bulk in Europe they are cheap, too. My guess is that the individual store just has a smaller profit margin on the pencil. Maybe the distributor sells them cheaper, too. The fact that the bulk price in Europe is cheap shows that the price it sells for in China should be achievable elsewhere, too, e.g. if a big chain wants to sell them near cost price.
A slightly different matter, stationery from FC (produced in Asia, though) is so cheap in China, as far as I can tell consumers in China pay less than retailers in Europe. I am however not sure how many more years this is sustainable.
Kevin,sticky price tags are very annoying, I wonder whether they even lose business because they want to save a few pence on the price tags.
I don't really know what smell you are referring to, but I will pay attention next time I visit an Art Shop.
Kevin: I know *exactly* what you mean. Part industrial solvents, part wood and fabric, part dust from items un-bought for 20 years. Much better, and more potent, than any new car smell, IMO.
Sean: at last, someone with my "nose".
Could you please send me exact address of this shop? I will be in Shanghai soon and I will be living in a hotel nearby Fuzhou road – so I would like to buy some stuff there.
Marek, I had a quick look on the web. I think the address is No. 364 Fuzhou Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai. There are many nice stationery shops on FuZhou road, so you should be able to find interesting items other shops on that road, too.
Marek, I am actually not sure. If it's not 364 Fuzhou Road, the address might be 622 Fuzhou Road. Sorry, I cannot be sure as there is no address on the receipt and there are many shops with that name in Shanghai.